Dr Johannes Döveling
Biography
Dr Johannes Döveling, LL.M. (Cape Town) worked as a research associate (Akademischer Rat a. Z.) at the University of Bayreuth in Germany until March 2019. He was also the Project Leader of the research project “Steering Regional Development through Regional Economic Communities in Africa: Legal, Economic and Political Instruments” (2017-2019).
Johannes worked with the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL), a think-tank on regional integration law at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law, from 2012 to 2019, lastly as the Deputy Leader of this centre.
After having completed his legal studies at the University of Bayreuth (First State Examination, with distinction), Johannes obtained an LLM degree with a specialisation in Environmental Law from the University of Cape Town. During his subsequent two-years legal clerkship (Referendariat), he worked inter alia for a leading international law firm, at courts of ordinary and administrative jurisdiction, in the legal department of a railway infrastructure company and at the German Embassy in Nairobi. Johannes successfully completed his legal clerkship by passing his Second State Examination with distinction.
Johannes gained his PhD with a thesis on the law of the East African Community (“Das Recht der Ostafrikanischen Gemeinschaft. Eine kritische Analyse” – summa cum laude). His primary research interests are public international law with a focus on regional integration law, as well as constitutional law, environmental law and the legal regulation of network industries (in particular telecommunications law). In his function as the Project Leader, Johannes traveled to the region several times a year to discuss the latest legal developments with renowned East African scholars and practitioners.
List of Publications
Monography
Das Recht der Ostafrikanischen Gemeinschaft. Eine kritische Analyse (Dissertation Bayreuth 2018, 457 pages), Mohr Siebeck 2019.
Journal and Book Articles
How Germany Contributes to the Effectiveness of European Law and Simultaneously Preserves Its Constitutional Identity: An Overview of the Relationship between German Law and European Law, in: Josaphat L. Kanywanyi, Ulrike Wanitzek, Anatole Nahayo and Johannes Döveling (Hrsg.), Regional Integration and Law: East African and European Perspectives, TGCL Series 4, Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam University Press) 2014, pp. 233-265
Kenia (Neubearbeitung), in: Alexander Bergmann/Murad Ferid/Dieter Henrich (Begr./Hrsg.), Internationales Ehe- und Kindschaftsrecht, Frankfurt/Main (Verlag für Standesamtswesen), 207th supplement 2014, pp. 1-102 (together Ulrike Wanitzek, Faith Amatika Omondi and Robert Omondi Owino)
Introduction: Regional Integration and Law – East African and European Perspectives, in: Josaphat L. Kanywanyi, Ulrike Wanitzek, Anatole Nahayo and Johannes Döveling (Hrsg.), Regional Integration and Law: East African and European Perspectives, Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam University Press) 2014, TGCL Series 4, pp. 1-10 (together with Josaphat L. Kanywanyi, Ulrike Wanitzek und Anatole Nahayo)
Das Tansanisch-deutsche Fachzentrum für Rechtswissenschaft (TGCL): Ausbildung künftiger Führungseliten für das östliche Afrika, Recht in Afrika 17 (2014), pp. 98-109
Tansanisch-deutsches Fachzentrum für Rechtswissenschaft. Ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Dar es Salaam und Bayreuth zur juristischen Ausbildung künftiger Führungseliten in Ostafrika, in: Bauer, Gerd Ulrich/Thum, Bernd (Hrsg.), Internationale Bildungsbeziehungen. Wissenschaftlicher Initiativkreis Kultur und Außenpolitik (WIKA) Report, Stuttgart (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) 2012, pp. 52-58 (together with Ulrike Wanitzek)
Studium in Südafrika: “Eine andere Welt", in: UniSPIEGEL 4/2010, pp. 22-24 and SPIEGEL ONLINE
Editorial Work
Books
Harmonisation of Laws in the East African Community, TGCL Series 5, Nairobi (LawAfrica) 2018, XII, 469 pages; together with Hamudi I. Majamba, Richard Frimpong Oppong and Ulrike Wanitzek
Regional Integration and Law: East African and European Perspectives, TGCL Series 4, Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam University Press) 2014, IX, 311 pages; together with Josaphat L. Kanywanyi, Ulrike Wanitzek and Anatole Nahayo
Constitutional Reform Processes and Integration in East Africa, TGCL Series 3, Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam University Press) 2013, XVII, 212 pages; together with Kennedy Gastorn and Ulrike Wanitzek
Book Series
Co-editorship TGCL Research Series (Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies) seit 2013; Series Editors: Gordon R. Woodman (†), Ulrike Wanitzek, Benedict T. Mapunda und Johannes Döveling